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Women's Health and Diseases

Course Code	: EBL401
Course Type	: Required
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 4
Credit	: 4
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 3

Objectives of the Course

To provide students with the knowledge and skills about the common women's health issues, deterioration of the pelvic support structures, sexually transmitted infections, reproductive system cancers and midwifery approaches to breast health issues.

Course Content

Women's health status in the world and in Turkey, women's life stages and problems, diagnosis and treatment methods used to evaluate the health of women, common women's health problems (pain, discharge, bleeding, incontinence, etc.), sexual health, behavior, values, beliefs and practices, benign and malignant genital tumors, disorders of pelvic support structures and sexually transmitted infections.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Keziban AMANAK

Funda GÜLER

Prof. Sündüz Özlem ALTINKAYA

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to promote women’s health status in the world and in Turkey, to explain problems common to women's health such as pain, discharge, bleeding, and provide training, counseling and care in order to prevent and eliminate these problems
2.	To be able to define the cycle of sexual function of women and men, sexual dysfunction and and provide sexual health counseling
3.	To be able to explain the structure and function of reproductive system disorders
4.	To be able to identify the signs and symptoms of gynecological malignancies, to provide training, counseling and care in gynecologic cancers and breast health problem
5.	To be able to identify and give care to the caring needs of women before and after gynecological surgery
6.	To be able to identify sexually transmitted infections , to provide training, counseling and care to prevent sexually transmitted infections

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Kadın Sağlığı, Ahsen Şirin ve Oya Kavlak, Bedray, Basın Yayıncılık Ltd. Şti., İstanbul, 2008.
2.	Doğum ve Kadın Sağlığı Hemşireliği, Lale Taşkın, Sistem ofset Matbaacılık, 2007.
3.	A Midwife's Handbook, Saunders, Constance Sinclair, St. Louis, 2004.
4.	Kadın sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Öğrenim Rehberi, Anahit Coşkun, İstanbul Medikal Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2008.
5.	Üreme sağlığına Giriş, T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Ana Çocuk Sağlığı ve Aile Planlaması Genel Müdürlüğü, Ankara, 2009.
6.	YEŞİLDAĞ, Birnur; GÖLBAŞI, Zehra. Doğum ağrısının yönetiminde nonfarmakolojik yöntemlerin etkinliğini değerlendiren lisansüstü tez çalışmalarının incelenmesi. Düzce Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2018, 8.3: 104-111.
7.	oşkun A., Ekizler İ., İnanç N., Karanisoğlu H., Kömürcü N., Okumuş H., Pasinlioğlu T., Taşkın L. Doğum ve Kadın Hastalıkları El kitabı, Editör: Prof.Dr. Anahit Çoşkun, Vehbi Koç Vakfı Yayınları, II. Baskı, İstanbul, 2000.
8.	Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum Tanı ve Tedavi, Editörler: S. Günalp, Z. S. Tuncer, Pelikan Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2004. Kişnişci H, Gökşin E. ve Ark. (1996), Temel Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum Bilgisi. Güneş Kitabevi, Ankara, 1996.
9.	Bankows J., Amy E., Hearve W. The John Hopkins Mamal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2. Edition, Lippincot Williams&Wilkins, 2002.
10.	KARTAL, Bahtışen; BAŞER, Mürüvvet. Yaşam kalitesini etkileyen kadın sağlığı sorunları. Journal of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2011, 21.3: 195-200.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Introduction to the course - The social position of women - Factors affecting women's health - Raising women's health status in World and in Turkey

Week 1 - Preparation Work

Introduction, Reading, Browsing Resources, Examination

Week 2 - Theoretical

Women's life stages, and problems related to these stages

Week 2 - Preparation Work